Manchester United Away - Sunday 1 September 2024

[Buzzo]

How Liverpool Just DESTROYED Man United - YouTube

That’s a good watch. Shows how disciplined we were on Sunday also. People tend to only focus on what happens when we are on the ball but that evidences how great we were structurally. Also shows how important Szoboslai is, to play that position you need a lot of energy and he puts a shift in.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Tuchel seems to be a popular choice among their fan base - that seems like a recipe for disaster given his falling outs at Chelsea and Bayern

In the short term he would improve them a lot imo.

His football is horribly negative to watch but highly effective, especially against well drilled attacking sides.

Under him there would be a good chance, again imo, of them getting into the top four after a season or two (if he lasted).


And as such, when they change manager again in the near future, I hope it is Southgate that comes through the door to great fanfare and not everyone's favourite serial killer looking mofo in Tommy the Tit.


Under Southgate they only get the negative footy, Tommy brings silverware with that style of footy.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Pochetino might have been a good shout for them to be honest..not because he is a top level manager, but because he is pretty good at bringing through young players.

The Argie Allardyce.


Very progressive early on in his career and then became a one trick dinosaur very quickly.

[Sus]

Agreed Tommy will tighten them up but I can see it all falling apart in 18 months under that structure

Either way, agreed on Southgate being a better choice for us

[peterbread]

Didn’t Tuchel drop Matthijs de Ligt and bring in Dier at Bayern?

[Norbs]

That’s a good watch. Shows how disciplined we were on Sunday also. People tend to only focus on what happens when we are on the ball but that evidences how great we were structurally. Also shows how important Szoboslai is, to play that position you need a lot of energy and he puts a shift in.

Last season he seemed to suffer fatigue after a while, coaching staff will be well aware of that and will hopefully be grooming an understudy

[Mr Pink]

https://x.com/NeilMellor33/status/1830632161336271124

I missed this one on Sunday, didn’t realise it was inside the box… happened at 3-0, so obv it was never gonna cost us, but even still this is some joke. New season, same **** from VAR. What if this was in a 0-0 draw or something?

And even though it don’t cost us in terms of the result, if it was awarded we’d prob be top of the league now.

[BG1973]

Was that the one where commentator said he stuck his leg in front of the defender? That was the justification for no penalty at the time.

[banditos]

Never a penalty. We'd be fuming if that had been given against us. Grav is the one who initiates the contact.

[Kenneth]

I agree, but Anthony Gordon gets it last season though.

[Norbs]

Never a penalty. We'd be fuming if that had been given against us. Grav is the one who initiates the contact.

Agreed, but

New law is that ref saw something, signalling to play the advantage confirms that he's noticed an infringement, so VAR should reaffirm it shouldn't they?

[fidget]

VAR should check if it was inside the box. Then the "high threshold for intervention means that the "referee's call" will stand "and a penalty given.

[Mr Pink]

Agreed, but

New law is that ref saw something, signalling to play the advantage confirms that he's noticed an infringement, so VAR should reaffirm it shouldn't they?

VAR should check if it was inside the box. Then the "high threshold for intervention means that the "referee's call" will stand "and a penalty given.

to both. I’m not complaining so much that it should be a pen, more the fact that the ref signaled foul and play on, and there didn’t seem to be any delay for a var check. If they checked and sent the ref to the monitor and he came back saying na actually I was wrong, it wasn’t a foul- I’d say fine, good process. But the ref said it was a foul but just didn’t realise it was in the box.

It’s not gonna get much attention cos it didn’t impact the outcome of the game, but it still feels like another one where they’ve dropped the ball.

[Kenneth]

I’m not convinced refs are using the traditional play on signal to mean that anymore. There were a couple last season where it appeared the ref signalled play on when they really just meant ‘carry on’.

[Cerbie]

I’m not convinced refs are using the traditional play on signal to mean that anymore. There were a couple last season where it appeared the ref signalled play on when they really just meant ‘carry on’.

You might be right about that, but they need to clarify what it means if they are sticking with the onfield decision. How does VAR know whether an intervention is required and most importantly, what are the fans in the stadium expecting if there is no immediate advantage.